Problem with Date Command

2008-06-05 Thread Dameon G. Rogers
Bug-coreutils, I would like to report a problem with the *date* command: date +%C does not function properly. It says it displays the current century but the/ definition /of century means that we are in the 21st not the 20th. Either the command needs to be changed or the man page ne

Re: horrible utf-8 performace in wc

2008-06-05 Thread Pádraig Brady
There have been some interesting "counting UTF-8 strings" threads over at reddit lately, all referenced from this article: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-05-faster-utf8-strlen.html Pádraig. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Re: Problem with Date Command

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dameon G. Rogers on 6/4/2008 10:09 PM: | Bug-coreutils, | |I would like to report a problem with the *date* command: | | date +%C | | does not function properly. It says it displays the current century 'date --help' (and thus th

Re: horrible utf-8 performace in wc

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been some interesting "counting UTF-8 strings" threads > over at reddit lately, all referenced from this article: > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-05-faster-utf8-strlen.html Thanks for the pointer! Interesting, indeed. __

Re: Problem with Date Command

2008-06-05 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dameon G. Rogers wrote: Bug-coreutils, I would like to report a problem with the *date* command: date +%C does not function properly. It says it displays the current century but the/ definition /of century means that we are in the 21st not the 20th. The documenta

Re: Problem with Date Command

2008-06-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
"Dameon G. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bug-coreutils, > >I would like to report a problem with the *date* command: > > date +%C > > does not function properly. It says it displays the current century > but the/ definition /of century means that we are in the 21st not the > 20th.

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2008-06-05 Thread Patrick McCrae
Hi, there - I know it is not a bug in the wc utility ... but maybe you also handle feature requests (if you don't, please let me know where to address them to). I would like to have an option (e.g. -n) to obtain from wc only its numeric output - /without /the trailing file name. I guess I am

Re: wc

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Patrick McCrae on 6/5/2008 4:57 AM: | Hi, there - | | I know it is not a bug in the wc utility ... but maybe you also handle | feature requests (if you don't, please let me know where to address them | to). This is the right place. | |

Re: Problem with Date Command

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [off-list, since the bulk of the patch is email addresses ;)] > > According to Philip Rowlands on 6/5/2008 7:15 AM: > |> Either the command needs to be changed or the man page needs to be > |> changed to express what the command actually does. Any assistance